Scientists Warn American ‘Promotion of Hunting’ Is Ruining the Environment
BY Herschel Smith
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Scientists have warned that a strong focus on hunting—instead of rewilding key species—is “reinforcing” biodiversity loss.
Parts of the U.S. are currently facing a biodiversity crisis for a variety of reasons including habitat degradation, invasive species, and climate change.
A new study published in the journal BioScience reported that state agencies are taking “the provisioning of hunting opportunities as their top priority.”
“Among species of wildlife, relatively few are hunted. So the focus on hunted species can tend toward the homogenization of wildlife communities, reinforcing the loss of biodiversity,” John A. Vucetich, a distinguished professor of wildlife conservation at Michigan Technological University, who worked on the study, told Newsweek.
“For example, the species of wild mammal with the most biomass on the planet is white-tailed deer. Overabundant deer populations have a negative impact on biodiversity—manifest mainly through over-browsing. The overabundance of deer is importantly a result of efforts to maximize deer abundance for the sake of hunting. Also, for example, considerable effort is devoted to promoting pheasant populations in several states for the sake of hunting, even though pheasants are not even part of these states’ native biodiversity.”
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This included the restoration of either extinct or imperiled species …
Let me translate this claptrap for you. Any time you hear the words “climate change” your antennae should go up.
Michael Mann is a shyster and a fake. I do science and engineering every day of my life, and I don’t have to falsify data to build my models and perform my calculations. Mann is a complete and total fraud, just like the so-called “science” he purports to support. Their agenda is population control, and now their agenda is clearly being expanded from population control of mankind to population control of animals because of “biodiversity” and climate change.
Here’s the bottom line. We all know that wildlife biologists are very good at knowing the population of white tail deer, knowing the proportion of does to bucks, and selling the number of tags necessary to keep the population right and the balance acceptable, or even increase the population just a bit, without creating such a large population that deer starve.
The climate change religionist freaks don’t like that. Not only do they want you dead and for you to produce no more offspring, they also want white tail deer dead. Their recipe for that? Introduce predators such as wolves and shut down the hunters to help maintain a healthy population.
Now do you understand why they want to reintroduce wolves and why they have harassed hunters like they have? Now do you understand why states have to have hunter harassment laws? Now do you understand why they hate us?
On December 4, 2023 at 1:32 pm, Ozark Redneck said:
@Herschel: Let me translate this claptrap for you. Any time you hear the words “climate change” your antennae should go up.
That is the truth! I expect them to tell me I can’t cut the trees down I planted 40 years ago on my own property, and burn them for firewood in my own wood stove anytime now…
On December 4, 2023 at 6:16 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
Re: “Scientists Warn American ‘Promotion of Hunting’ Is Ruining the Environment”
Prior to becoming a biochemist I was a field biologist during my undergraduate years, and did field biology & forestry research for six months in the N. Minnesota and Ontario, Canada wilderness. For all intents and purposes, I lived outdoors most of that time. I am also a hunter, fisherman, wildlife photographer,outdoorsman and hiker of long experience.
Therefore, it is with some assurance that I can categorically state that any “scientist” who makes such statements is a prostitute in a lab-coat selling him/herself to the highest bidder, and not someone whose work ~ or statements ~ should be taken the least bit seriously.
Hunters are the real environmentalists and conservationists. Anyone who has spent any time at all in that community knows this basic truth. And that doesn’t even get into the gigantic amount of revenue they put into the system to promote habitat conservation, game management, education, hunter safety and other worthy causes.
On December 4, 2023 at 10:17 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
@ Ozark Redneck
Re: “Any time you hear the words “climate change” your antennae should go up.”
Yep, that’s exactly right. One could deliver a two to three hour lecture on how the science behind the “climate change” movement is deeply-flawed, erroneous and flat-our wrong… and one could also note that the climate alarmists have been wrong over-and-over again since the 1970s, when the globalist Club of Rome authors predicted that a mass famine would wipe out much of the world’s population within a decade.
There are other lines of rebuttal as well, but there is a much simpler proof that the whole climate change movement is a racket from top-to-bottom: The behavior of its principles and members.
At the last climate con-fab in Scotland, I believe it was, the skies over Great Britain were positively dark with the private jets of celebrities and billionaires, the harbors were choked with yachts the size of destroyers and guided missile frigates, and the roads and parking-lots were full of giant SUVs and limousines requiring a gas-guzzler tax to be levied against the owners.
And the high-rollers, big-shots and globalist billionaires, where were they to be found? Why, eating fillet mignon and caviar in the penthouses of the finest hotels in Britain even as they lectured the great unwashed and peasants that they would have to cease eating beef and live in dwellings the size of closets to save mother earth…
The whole enterprise is a scam, a grift of massive proportions, and a racket from top to bottom. And the behavior of the so-called “elites” proves it once and for all…
On December 5, 2023 at 8:29 am, ragman said:
Another red flag is “sustainable”. Whenever you hear or see this hide yer wallet and get ready for the communists to take more of our freedoms and liberties.
On December 5, 2023 at 2:01 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
One final observation for what it is worth…
Some talking head prattling on about how hunting “hurts the environment” may be a trial balloon to see how a general ban on hunting would go down regionally or nationally.
The elites want commoners to starve while freezing in darkness; they have made this well-known via their pronouncements such as the Georgia Guidestones. They can’t quite bring themselves to say it so bluntly, but they think it all the same. Even as they attempt to strangle the food supply or adulterate it with poisons of various kinds, outlawing hunting would close off another source of food, and make an instant outlaw of anyone who “poached the king’s deer”….
Do they really want to turn Billy Bob into Robin Hood? Are they really that dumb?